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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair

Meaning of "rattling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RATTLING

rattling  [ˈrætlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RATTLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rattling is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RATTLING


beetling
ˈbiːtlɪŋ
bratling
ˈbrætlɪŋ
catling
ˈkætlɪŋ
eastling
ˈiːstlɪŋ
fatling
ˈfætlɪŋ
fettling
ˈfɛtlɪŋ
flatling
ˈflætlɪŋ
footling
ˈfuːtlɪŋ
gnatling
ˈnætlɪŋ
mantling
ˈmæntlɪŋ
mortling
ˈmɔːtlɪŋ
nestling
ˈnɛstlɪŋ
priestling
ˈpriːstlɪŋ
ratling
ˈrætlɪŋ
scantling
ˈskæntlɪŋ
softling
ˈsɒftlɪŋ
startling
ˈstɑːtlɪŋ
subtitling
ˈsʌbˌtaɪtlɪŋ
whitling
ˈwɪtlɪŋ
witling
ˈwɪtlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RATTLING

ratting
rattish
rattle
rattle one´s dags
rattle someone´s cage
rattlebag
rattlebox
rattlebrain
rattled
rattler
rattlesnake
rattlesnake plantain
rattletrap
rattlier
rattliest
rattlingly
rattly
ratton
rattoon
ratty

WORDS THAT END LIKE RATTLING

all-in wrestling
arm wrestling
bantling
bristling
bustling
calling
castling
dismantling
Graeco-Roman wrestling
Indian wrestling
mud wrestling
rustling
saber-rattling
sabre-rattling
sumo wrestling
throttling
troutling
unsettling
whistling
wine-bottling
wrestling

Synonyms and antonyms of rattling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RATTLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rattling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rattling

Translation of «rattling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RATTLING

Find out the translation of rattling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rattling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rattling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

剑拔弩张
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

traqueteo
570 millions of speakers

English

rattling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तेजस्वी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قعقعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гремя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chocalhar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাণবন্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bruyant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bergetar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rasselnd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ガタガタいう
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잡았다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rattling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh hải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

rattling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दमछाक करणारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tıkırtı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crepitio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grzechot
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гримлячи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zăngănit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κροτάλισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huppelend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skramlande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rallende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rattling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RATTLING»

The term «rattling» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.431 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RATTLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rattling

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10 QUOTES WITH «RATTLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rattling.
1
Red Adair
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
2
Chris Van Allsburg
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
3
Benjamin Banneker
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
4
Elliot Cowan
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
5
Robert Fulghum
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
6
Chuck Jones
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
7
Howard E. Koch
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
8
Harold Larwood
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
9
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
10
Kate Mosse
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATTLING»

Discover the use of rattling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rattling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize ...
This richly drawn study shows how the IAF network works with religious congregations and other community-based institutions to cultivate the participation and leadership of Americans most left out of our elite-centered politics.
Mark R. Warren, 2010
2
No Rattling of Sabers: An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry
This collection offers 93 poems, in their original Hebrew and in Esther Raizen's English translation.
Esther Raizen, 1995
3
Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals
Argues that the failure to recognize the legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a contradiction in our law, and seeks to demonstrate the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of apes.
Steven M. Wise, 2000
4
75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work: ...
Additionally, the guide benefits individuals as much as it does teams, small groups, small businesses, and larger corporations.
Dick Whitney, Melissa Giovagnoli, 1997
5
Al-jazeera: The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling ...
Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001.
Mohammed El-Nawawy, Adel Iskander, 2013
6
A Rattling of Sabers
Dr. Greg Bourgond reveals how men can live godly lives filled with authenticity, integrity, courage, and honor under God's authority.
Dr Greg Bourgond, 2012
7
Rattling those dry bones: women changing the Church
This powerful collection includes some of the church's most well-respected leaders, theologians and teachers such as Madeleine L'Engle, Susan Cole, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Hardesty.
June Steffensen Hagen, 1995
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Rattling: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Your job is only as big as you are.ndash;George HubbsEven Pain pricks to livelier living.ndash;Amy LowellThe liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to ...
‎2008
9
Presidential Saber Rattling: Causes and Consequences
How do foreign factors affect presidential saber rattling across the three dependent variables? The coefficients for the war variable in the second row of Table 4.2 are statistically significant for all three analyses. In the first column, the incidence ...
B. Dan Wood, 2012
10
Advanced Whitetail Hunting
RATTLING ACCESSORIES include: (1) gloves, (2) face mask, (3) camouflage face paint, (4) synthetic antlers, (5) safety ribbon, (6) genuine antlers, (7) grunt call, (8) Fighting Buck System® and (9) rattling bag. Synthetic antlers have proven to ...
Ron Spomer, Gary Clancy, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RATTLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rattling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kim Jong Un's saber rattling is more worrying than Vladimir Putin's
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with North Korea's first female fighter jet pilots in this undated photo released by the country's state media on Monday, ... «CNN, Jul 15»
2
Bernie Sanders praises Iran deal as 'victory for diplomacy over …
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, praised the deal announced Tuesday on Iran's nuclear program as a “victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling” that ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
3
Russia 'playing with fire' with nuclear saber-rattling: Pentagon
WASHINGTON Russia is "playing with fire" with its nuclear saber-rattling and the United States is determined to prevent it from gaining a significant military ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
4
Putin's Nuclear Saber Rattling: What Is That All About?
Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony unveiling a World War I monument at the Poklonnaya Gora War Memorial Park in ... «Newsweek, Jun 15»
5
Nato condemns Putin's nuclear 'sabre-rattling'
Nato has condemned Russia's move to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, saying it amounted to "nuclear sabre-rattling" and was "unjustified" and "dangerous". «BBC News, Jun 15»
6
What is rattling US financial markets?
An ongoing surge in eurozone government bond yields pushed U.S. equity futures down sharply on Thursday morning, with the Dow Jones industrial average ... «CBS News, Jun 15»
7
Rose Gottemoeller on the NPT Review Conference, Russian saber …
But negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and Russian nuclear saber rattling are also at the top of public consciousness. So it seemed an appropriate time to ... «Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 15»
8
Voices: I survived another nerve-rattling Nepal quake
KATHMANDU, Nepal — For about a week, Kathmandu had tried hard to seem normal. Shops and many restaurants reopened and everyone went back to work. «USA TODAY, May 15»
9
Car Talk: Brake rattle could be something or nothing
So if it's just during light or moderate braking, your mechanic can try installing a hardware kit that's designed for rattling brakes. It's called — get this — an ... «Columbus Dispatch, May 15»
10
Overblown: Russia's Empty Nuclear Sabre-Rattling
As the Ukraine-Russia crisis deepened and West-Russia relations plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War, Moscow has rattled its nuclear saber. «The National Interest Online, Mar 15»

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